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Mon, 18 May 2015 19:17:22 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.3Comment on The West Highland Way 8 – Kinlochleven to Fort William by @duanenicolhttp://www.bryan-crosby.ca/2014/11/29/the-west-highland-way-8-kinlochleven-to-fort-william/comment-page-1/#comment-35830
Mon, 18 May 2015 19:17:22 +0000http://www.bryan-crosby.ca/?p=4060#comment-35830Some great shots Bryan. Hope the distillery tours were great as well! Cheers.
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Tue, 11 Mar 2014 20:07:52 +0000http://www.bryan-crosby.ca/2010/12/15/we-feel-you-are-not-quite-the-right-fit-for-us-at-this-timerevised/#comment-4046Hey Bob,

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Mon, 10 Mar 2014 21:48:02 +0000http://www.bryan-crosby.ca/2010/12/15/we-feel-you-are-not-quite-the-right-fit-for-us-at-this-timerevised/#comment-4045Bryan did you send this to CIP? If so to who and what response did you get.

Bob Lehman

]]>Comment on Lonely Planet – Mackenzie, B.C. by Andrew Mortonhttp://www.bryan-crosby.ca/2010/01/24/lonely-planet-mackenzie-b-c/comment-page-1/#comment-4043
Tue, 26 Nov 2013 03:31:00 +0000http://www.bryan-crosby.ca/2010/01/24/lonely-planet-mackenzie-b-c/#comment-4043I think it’s a multitude of factors…I’d say that online competition (both from Amazon and from indigo.ca) is a large part of it, though. Whenever people asked why the online price was invariably lower than the in-store price, I tended to tell people that Chapters Indigo and indigo.ca were two separate companies who shared only a name and a warehouse, which is effectively the case as one competes directly against Amazon (and, resultantly, its own bricks-and-mortar stores), and the other is a “cultural department store” that is focusing more on its gift product than on its core business.

That said, the reasoning behind the Kingston Indigo closing was that the market couldn’t support two large-format stores, and the Chapters in the Townships was “a more profitable location”, which I feel is horseshit as there was a captive audience of students downtown. (I think Empire Cinemas is feeling the pain after having relocated from the CBD to what amounts in the student mind to Siberia, and I reckon Indigo will feel that pain eventually.)

As for the two Toronto locations, essentially the landlords increased the rent beyond what Indigo was willing to pay. WBB wasn’t a huge shock, given that it’s right in the downtown core, and was a 2.5 storey building in an area where 40-50 storeys aren’t uncommon (and there’s a 78-storey building under construction three blocks north). There’ve been articles about the potential closure for a year and a half now, and there are three other large-format stores within a mile, including two of the company’s flagship stores (Bay/Bloor and Eaton Centre; my old haunt Chapters John & Richmond is the third LF store). The bigger shock was Runnymede – repurposed movie theatre in an up-and-coming neighbourhood. If you somehow find yourself in Toronto between now and mid-January, I’d pay it a visit. Best Chapters in Toronto (that isn’t John & Richmond).

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Sun, 24 Nov 2013 19:47:00 +0000http://www.bryan-crosby.ca/2010/02/26/the-most-dangerous-coffee-in-kingston/#comment-4042Sounds like I’ll be able to get up to that Starbucks even faster!
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